Arpeggione

Arpeggione built in 1968 by Henning Aschauer following specifications of Alfred Lessing

The arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba. So it had another name, the guitar violoncello.[1] The body shape of the instrument is, however, more similar to a medieval fiddle than either the guitar or the bass viol. The instrument was essentially a bass viol with a guitar-type tuning,E–A–d–g–b–e' . The arpeggione was especially suited to playing runs in 3rds, double stops and arpeggios.[1]